India to seek Andersons extradition
On Board Air India One: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that his government will try to ensure that the US takes a
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Ongoing tragedy
The victims are yet to be adequately compensated or given proper medical help; their water sources are yet to be decontaminated. At Arif Nagar slum, a toxic waste yard next to the boundary wall of the factory. The accident polluted the soil and groundwater in the neighbourhood to dangerous levels.
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Court allows Centre to take over Bhopal trust, hospital
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Centre to take over the management of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) and its hospital set up for the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy. Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati said the hospital would be run by the Department of Biotechnology. The Department of Atomic Energy would also coordinate in BMHT management.
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State unaware of Central Pollution Control Board report on Carbide waste disposal
BHOPAL: Officials of the state have pleaded ignorance about reports that Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had deemed Pithampur incineration facility as suitable for trial burning of the toxic wastes lying at the Union Carbide Bhopal plant. Pithampur is among 21 TSDF sites, being evaluated for incineration of some 350 metric tons of toxic waste laying abandoned Carbide factory. Faced with opposition from local residents and villagers at Pithampur, the Madhya Pradesh government has contested incineration of Bhopal's toxic waste in the facility.
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Bhopal NGO to move HC
Bhopal: Disheartened and annoyed over the trial court verdict in the Union Carbide gas tragedy case, a victims
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Anderson: The man who got away
Nearing 90, the CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster lives the life of a recluse in a multi-million dollar home in NY
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Justice delayed, denied
Over 25 yrs after the world
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The slow express
Bhopal gets promised a long awaited Rsl,503 crore For some, the figure of Rsl,503 crore may appear a bounty. But lakhs of people in Bhopal have been waiting anxiously for several years to get this money, and it's rightfully theirs for the taking. A Supreme Court diktat that would enable them to get the money had been eluding them.
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NGOs want PM to toe Obama line to make Dow cough up
Bhopal: NGOs working for the survivors of the world
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U.S. won't reopen Bhopal gas leak probe, says Robert Blake
Narayan Lakshman Washington: The U.S. government virtually ruled out any further review of the investigation into the Bhopal industrial disaster of 1984, and in particular refused to discuss the extradition of American citizen Warren Anderson, CEO of the company behind the leak of poisonous gasses that led to the death of many thousands of people.
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Dont bow to US, get Anderson back: BJP, Left to Centre
CORNERED over its role in the fleeing of Warren Anderson, Congress on Thursday came under heavy shelling from the Opposition. BJP and the Left said the then Congress government at the Centre came under
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GoM discusses clean-up options
Deliberating on remediation measures, the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday considered a number of clean-up options, including building a memorial and burying part of the toxic waste at the disaster site in Bhopal where the Union Carbide factory is located.
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Govt plea in SC to enhance compensation for victims
After a lot of debate on whether Dow, which took over Union Carbide, should be made liable for enhanced compensation to Bhopal gas victims, the Centre on Friday filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court against its two verdicts on civil suits related to the compensation issue. The first verdict of the apex court, in 1989, gave approval to the out-of-court settlement between the Indian govern
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Call to send Bhopal toxic waste back to US
Jun 22nd, 2010 -- Rashme Sehgal | A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) having ordered Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL)
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India To Pay Extra $15.8 Million To Bhopal Gas Victims
India will pay an extra 713 million rupees ($15.8 million) in compensation to the victims of the world's worst industrial accident that killed thousands in 1984, the government said in a statement late on Thursday. India says about 3,500 people died when a Union Carbide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal accidentally released toxic gases into the air, but activists say 25,000 died in th
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US linked Bhopal to aid
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NGOs unhappy with ICMR centre work on Bhopal victims
Representatives of five organisations working among the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster on Tuesday criticised the working of National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (NIREH) and said the performance of this organisation has been woefully short of meeting the target of benefiting the victims of the 1984 gas disaster. Addressing a press conference here, representatives of five NGOs working for the gas victims said that NIREH was established as the 31st centre of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on October 11, 2010 with the primary objective of carrying out research to benefit the survivors of the disaster.
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Supreme Court orders of 26 October 2004, 17 September 2004 and 17 August 2004 on Bhopal Gas Disaster
Twenty years after the worst ever man-made disaster in the country, victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy got a direction from the Supreme Court for the disbursement of a Rs 1,567 crore compensation to them, paid by US pesticide major Union Carbide.
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Centre may fund Bhopal clean-up
NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to foot the bill for remediation, or cleaning up, of the contaminated site of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. This is expected to be among the recommendations of the group of ministers (GoM), which are to be finalized and handed over to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by Monday afternoon.
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Bhopal GoM to recommend cleanup, more relief, Anderson extradition
Ministerial Panel May Put Onus Of Cleaning Up Plant Site On MP Govt With Financial Help From Centre